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Just now, Daniel F said:

On your screen the emojis are visible twice.

3 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

Are you still seeing this?
Works fine for me in Safari, Firefox and Chrome

Yes, on newest Chrome, Windows 10.

I understand, but it seems to me that until a while ago it worked (and I have not changed, neither the computer nor the browser).

What about the double occurrence of emoji, is this also normal?

Even on this forum there is a problem with emoji. Some are doubled (once in lowercase, once in uppercase), and others like "rock" are not available.

7 minutes ago, Barry Beckham said:

You are running PHP version 7.4.32. You need PHP 8.0.0 or above. You should contact your hosting provider or system administrator to ask for an upgrade.

Do you see PHP 8 in phpinfo?

On 10/29/2022 at 1:58 PM, MeanGene said:

The embed image did not follow to the FB post.

@MeanGene try to referesh cached image on facebook by using this: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

@Adriano Faria this plugin would be even better if you added one little detail there. The og:image parameter should be added to source code even if the thumbnail has not been manually swapped. In this case, either the image that was automatically selected for the thumbnail or the default image that is used for topics without any images, should be specified there as og:image.

@Matt wow, perfect - thank you!

It would be great if it was possible to edit the page shown during the update. It's a small thing, but it would certainly be better if it would be possible to display there our logo + information that it's a scheduled technical break and we invite you to visit our blog or social media during this time. I know it's a mechanism detached from the whole system, but on Wordpress it's possible to do something like that and it works great (it's done through a separate maintenance.php file).

In my opinion, the current template does not look very good for the user who will then enter the site (especially when this message is only in english).

I believe that this will appear, because in my case this is the main reason why I had to limit the number of badges - users were dissatisfied with them. In such a situation, it's hard to prepare badges for new and regular users, because new users should earn them fairly quickly for motivation, and it doesn't make sense that later a person with 10k posts has badges for writing the first, fifth and tenth post.

Great, thank you!

20 minutes ago, LiveG said:

PHP8 on the server is not a requirement to the software upgrade?

 

No. Right now it its only a recommendation. 

+1

The more cloud information is shown, the more negative I am about it. I'm quite an advanced user - I know the solution and have the confidence that I won't migrate to the cloud. And if, by some miracle, I want to (e.g., as part of another project), I will definitely keep it in mind.

@Jim M when will the November issue be released? Will it be before November or in November? To be more precise: when will be the last moment to upgrade to 4.7.2.X? I can't switch my server to PHP8 yet (due to other systems).

@Marc Stridgen I disabled the plugins shown at the bottom of the previous screenshot. Error looks similar (just without info about plugins):
 

Currently it looks bad if we want to award ranks for e.g. a round number of posts, likes or years since registrating on the forum. If a user gets a badge for getting 100 likes then there should be an option to automatically hide it when the user gets another badge of the same type, e.g. for 1000 likes. It makes no sense to display these "smaller" badges in the profile.

Badges awarded automatically may include a brief description explaining what the badge was awarded for. The same field would be useful for badges added manually.

I would like to divide badges into thematic categories (e.g., for activity on the forum, for participation in contests, for numbers of posts, for numbers of likes) so that they display in the profile view in a batter way. It's not a big deal - just a category name, under it a list of badges (as it is now), another category name and another list of badges.

The stats for ranks (only them) are not working for me. I have ranks and badges running. The latest version of the forum. PHP 7.4. What can I do about this?

I don't think so. There should be special tag in source code for Facebook preview images like:

<meta property="og:image" content="XXX.jpg">

It would be nice to have such option in this plugin. It would be much better alternative for this one (when we can not change the image): 

@Adriano Faria is it working also as preview image for Facebooks (og:image)?

I understand. However, I wanted to lock accounts that have not been used for a long time in such a way for safety. Then, after trying to log in, the user would have to verify himself with access to his email and would change his password in the process.

I created new achievements and rules. I want to start ranks recounting for all users. Just to confirm: this won't send some mass email (or other) notifications to users that they have earned some badges, etc.?

@Adriano Faria no problem, this plugin is also great, but not for my usecase 😉

The current option to force password changes sends an email to all forced users. This can generate anxiety because people think something bad has happened. Is it possible to force a change of passwords in such a way that the user only gets a message after entering the site and trying to log in? He should get info that his password has expired and he must now reset it for his security. Such a procedure does not arouse suspicion.

Fixed: cookie path was overwritten in constans.php during upgrade.